hershey's chocolate tastes like vomit: discuss (1 Viewer)

[7 - No tomorrow]

too sour? But it's all sugar from what I remember?

Well, there's cocoa in there too, I would guess.
Most of the major players are secretive about their processes.

Hershey's finds it very difficult to gain market share in countries out foreign where English and European chocolate has gained any kind of a foothold - Commonwealth countries etc.
It is generally Americans, who have grown up on it, that will opt for the Hershey bar.
Essentially, most other people prefer the good stuff.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Ace chocolate, leatherback turtles, really deep natural harbours - is there anything the British Isles doesn't rock at?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Oh, and Hershey's make all Cadbury's brand chocolate under licence in the US.
So the only place to get a proper Cadbury's bar is in specialist importers.


That's all my knowledge on the subject pretty much tapped out.

 

[Froog]

I don't see that at all - it's a huge megabrand, therefore it's high quality? Does anyone really think that?

well it sells a fuck load, as do inferior megabrands like budweiser.
There's a lot to be said for marketing.

 

[classic seanc]

its mental how big marketing can transcend quality, like most people would assume hersheys chocolate is real high qulaity stuff just on the brand name and image alone.

Just because people buy something all the time doesn't mean they like it particularly. No one thinks that Ryanair or Tesco or McDonalds or Microsoft are really any good, but they'll still spend their money and consume those products/services.

Its more to do with the very American business strategy of being huge and dominating the marketplace. Besides coming up with a brand logo to plaster onto products, the "Being Huge" strategy has very little to do with the marketing of a product as being of good quality.
People don't think that Hershey's is a particularly good confectioner, but people do think that if-they're-so-big-then-they-must-be-ok-at-what-they-do. And so, they'll buy the product, because it's "ok". Basically.

That being said, I don't think that Hershey's tastes like vomit.

 

[Thebeard]

Hershey's make these boys:

For that, i like them. And i like Hershey's chocolate anyway.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

People like McDonald's.

 

[CitySickness]

Just because people buy something all the time doesn't mean they like it particularly. No one thinks that Ryanair or Tesco or McDonalds or Microsoft are really any good, but they'll still spend their money and consume those products/services.

Its more to do with the very American business strategy of being huge and dominating the marketplace. Besides coming up with a brand logo to plaster onto products, the "Being Huge" strategy has very little to do with the marketing of a product as being of good quality.
People don't think that Hershey's is a particularly good confectioner, but people do think that if-they're-so-big-then-they-must-be-ok-at-what-they-do. And so, they'll buy the product, because it's "ok". Basically.

That being said, I don't think that Hershey's tastes like vomit.

Quite. I don't think anyone thinks Hershey's is in any way the finest chocolate the world has to offer. For the most part it's just there, and it'll do. There's also a weirdly small choice of chocolate bars in American shops, relative to the fine spread our newsagents put out (even if it is dominated by three main brands).

 

[Lili Marlene]

For the most part it's just there, and it'll do.

Not good enough

 

[Jill Hives]

Hershey's make these boys:

For that, i like them. And i like Hershey's chocolate anyway.

I can top those any day. Homemade like .

 

[CitySickness]

Not good enough

I can't stand the shit. Total chocolate snob. Chocobigot even.

 

[Thebeard]

I can top those any day. Homemade like .

Savage, can i have some?

 

[Jill Hives]

Savage, can i have some?

I like any reason to bake/make/decorate stuff. If you're ever going to be at the same gig or something let me know. I'll bring some...they're easy and quick.

 

[Thebeard]

I like any reason to bake/make/decorate stuff. If you're ever going to be at the same gig or something let me know. I'll bring some...they're easy and quick.

Nice one Jill, sounds like a plan. I have a craving for them now, think i'll get one at lunch.

 

[Froog]

I can't stand the shit. Total chocolate snob. Chocobigot even.

i'm a choco racist, i only eat white.

 

[Reets]

I like any reason to bake/make/decorate stuff. If you're ever going to be at the same gig or something let me know. I'll bring some...they're easy and quick.

If only we needed car snacks this week...

Hersheys do Reese's Nutrageous too, beautiful.
The peanuty centre is smoother then a star bar and there's peanuts in the chocolate coating, beautiful. Aldi have started selling them, should have an extra layer in time for winter.

 

[Jill Hives]

If only we needed car snacks this week...

Hersheys do Reese's Nutrageous too, beautiful.
The peanuty centre is smoother then a star bar and there's peanuts in the chocolate coating, beautiful. Aldi have started selling them, should have an extra layer in time for winter.

Car snacks. Check.
I'll make them bite size so it doesn't seem as bad.

 

[potlatch]

Maybe it's been said here, but...

Hershey's tastes the way it does because, during the Great Chocolate Wars, he failed to 'barize' the milk chocolate bar without turning the milk sour. As technology advanced in the 1800s, innovators turned their attention to making cocoa tastier and snackable. Many failed, but it was Mr. Nestlé or someone who got around the problem by making milk chocolate with powdered milk. Swiss engineering solved the problem.

Hershey on the other hand was too thick to get around the problem and instead created a market for mankified chocolate through mass advertising, which everyone now knows and loves. Or not.

Well, like, I don't know if this is true, someone tole me it.

It's mank, and tastes like ear wax, but I still load up on it when in the States.

 

[shower another shower]

This wouldn't taste right without Hershey's

 

[ratmonkey]

Is that an anagram for chocolate Kimberley?